Product Manager - Mission Agents

Vannevar; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Lifestyle stipends

Fully paid parental leave

Child and pet care reimbursement

Job summary

Vannevar is hiring a Product Manager for their Mission Agents team. The role involves synthesizing conflicting inputs, defining product direction, and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions. Candidates should have strong product judgment, experience with complex systems, and technical fluency. The position offers a remote-first culture, health benefits, unlimited PTO, and various lifestyle stipends. Join Vannevar to make a real impact in mission-driven product development.

Qualifications

• You have experience with complex systems or platforms.
• You can engage with engineers and understand system constraints.
• You take responsibility for outcomes and drive them through to completion.

Responsibilities

• Synthesize conflicting inputs and provide clear direction.
• Define objectives, constraints, and evaluation criteria.
• Drive systematic improvements across models and workflows.
• Translate real-world user signal into product direction.

Skills

Strong product judgment

Ability to separate signal from noise

Experience with complex systems

Technical fluency

Clear, direct communication

Tools

SQL

Figma

Job description

About The Role

We’re hiring a Product Manager for our Mission Agents team. This team owns the systems that turn user intent into execution – from chat and tasking to persistent agent workflows. You will define how users delegate work to software, how those systems operate on real‑world data, and how they are monitored, constrained, and improved over time.

This is not a traditional roadmap role. You will take in incomplete, conflicting inputs from users, stakeholders, data, and systems – and decide what we should actually build.

You will work closely with operators, forward‑deployed engineers, and engineering teams to identify high‑leverage problems and drive them through to shipped capability. You will often need to ignore loud or conflicting inputs and make decisions that others disagree with.

This role reports to the CTO and operates at the intersection of mission, product, and engineering. Success is measured by whether we build the right things and those things create real mission impact.

What you’ll do

• Synthesize signal into direction. Take in messy, conflicting inputs and determine what actually matters.
• Define how agents behave. Shape primitives like objectives, constraints, trust tiers, and evaluation criteria.
• Improve output quality. Drive systematic improvements across models, memory, and workflows.
• Own product direction end‑to‑end. Turn ambiguous problems into concrete bets and drive them through delivery.
• Work directly with users. Build deep intuition for real‑world workflows and needs.
• Translate mission signal into product direction. Take in real‑world user signal and translate it into clear product direction, including pushing back when needed.
• Partner with engineering. Shape solutions that are both impactful and technically sound.
• Drive alignment in ambiguous situations. Bring clarity across stakeholders when perspectives conflict.

What you should have

• Strong product judgment. You consistently identify the right problems and make sound prioritization decisions.
• Ability to separate signal from noise. You form independent, defensible opinions from incomplete and conflicting inputs.
• Experience with complex systems or platforms. You’ve worked on products where behavior emerges from underlying primitives.
• Experience operating under real constraints. You’ve shipped products where security, infrastructure, or deployment realities shaped decisions.
• High ownership and bias toward action. You take responsibility for outcomes and push work through to completion.
• Technical fluency. You can engage with engineers and understand system constraints and tradeoffs.
• Clear, direct communication. You can articulate decisions, tradeoffs, and reasoning in a way others can act on.

Nice to have

• Experience working with operational or mission‑driven users.
• Experience with LLM‑based systems.
• Experience with product analytics (e.g., SQL).
• Experience rapidly prototyping ideas (Figma, AI coding tools, etc.).
• Exposure to constrained or high‑security environments.
• Active Security clearance (or ability to obtain one) and willingness to travel onsite.

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full‑time employees have WeWork access.
• Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• Lifestyle stipends – Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in‑home office setup stipend and family‑planning assistance.
• Salary top‑up during military reserve duty.
• Fully paid parental leave.
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.

Vannevar is an equal‑opportunity employer and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or perception, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.